Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250470 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14809
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the Famine, measured by the number of excess deaths per 100 people, is associated with a 1.8-3.5 percentage points decline in the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find that personal income is a channel through which being a child or adolescent during the Great Famine affects the proclivity to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and energy poverty.
Subjects: 
childhood adversity
energy poverty
China
the Chinese Great Famine
JEL: 
J13
I32
Q41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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